I have been on my 'Soap Box' for years about this. I don't care what google say they have basically become a spying arm of the CIA. OK so it's all well and good when terrorism or Paedophiles are concerned but the bigger issue is commerce and industrial espionage. Every big nation is at it. China being one of the worst. I bet Baidu was created to try and stop Google (sorry the CIA) getting commercial information.

So as for Andriod. It is a very useful operating system (Linux) that has been abused and corrupted to fuel commercial info for Google. It is a (IMHO) unstable and insecure operating system that has opened the door for nasties to invade which is the opposite to what Linux is. Although not a great fan of Mark Shuttleworth (Don't ban me for mentioning his name) I want his Ubuntu mobile to take off.........seems dead in it's tracks already though. Still....might give this a go.https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.softwarebakery.drivedroid

Not really mobile but it's interesting.

Note to CIA, MI5,MI6, Google and GCHQ, this is a personal opinion please do not intimidate people on this forum or my friends.

Mmm, I'm thinking private networks could be the next big thing, i.e. your own encrypted organisational network running on top of the physical Internet .. and of course your own servers .. none of this GMail business where Uncle Sam etc essentially have your password.

I am a little surprised that Google didn't see this issue coming when they put SO much resource into developing GMail and their online application suite. If the govt has full access to everything online, how much stuff do you "really" want leaving your office?

I guess the problem is that security is just way beyond your average user .. which is worrying for security in general and I would have thought even more worrying for them (!)

"tinc" would be ideal for this, it's essentially a p2p VPN product. (OS of course)Works very well, completely transparent when configured .. and should scale to '000's of nodes ..

Maybe this is the answer...

Tor (originally short for The Onion Router) is free software for enabling online anonymity. Tor directs Internet traffic through a free, worldwide volunteer network consisting of more than three thousand relays to conceal a user's location or usage from anyone conducting network surveillance or traffic analysis. Using Tor makes it more difficult to trace Internet activity, including "visits to Web sites, online posts, instant messages and other communication forms", back to the user and is intended to protect users' personal privacy, freedom, and ability to conduct confidential business by keeping their internet activities from being monitored."Onion Routing" refers to the layers of the encryption used. The original data, including its destination, are encrypted and re-encrypted multiple times, and sent through a virtual circuit comprising successive, randomly selected Tor relays. Each relay decrypts a "layer" of encryption to reveal only the next relay in the circuit in order to pass the remaining encrypted data on to it. The final relay decrypts the last layer of encryption and sends the original data, without revealing or even knowing its sender, to the destination. This method reduces the chance of the original data being understood in transit and, more notably, conceals the routing of it.

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If you need help ask a professional, then act upon their advice.Anything less and you're just wasting peoples time.

Dear Mr NSA, as we've now (probably) set off all of your alarms by repeatedly using acronyms for various US bases security services, please could you take a look at the following link and maybe forward it on to someone who can do something. Y'know, as it's a REAL problem that's likely to screw the entire planet if something isn't done fairly urgently .. maybe a bit more interesting than what I had for breakfast?! (it was eggs again)

And here begins the next phase of evolution .. who knows, maybe world food shortages will be a thing of the past .. 7 headed 50 foot sardines will feed a lot of glow in the dark people you know .. or possibly a new spin on "fish fingers"